{"id":164845,"date":"2023-05-31T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough"},"modified":"2023-05-31T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:25:29","slug":"hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Hibernation artificially triggered in potential space travel breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hibernation-artificially-triggered-in-potential-space-travel-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In science fiction, space crews are often spared the boredom and inconvenience of long-distance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/nov\/19\/space-how-far-have-we-gone-and-where-are-we-going\">space travel<\/a> by being placed into a state of suspended animation. Now this goal may have come a step closer after scientists showed that hibernation can be artificially triggered in rodents using ultrasonic pulses.<\/p>\n<p>The advance is seen as significant because the technique was effective in rats \u2013 animals that do not naturally hibernate. This raises the prospect that humans may also retain a vestigial hibernation circuit in the brain that could be artificially reactivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In science fiction, space crews are often spared the boredom and inconvenience of long-distance space travel by being placed into a state of suspended animation. Now this goal may have come a step closer after scientists showed that hibernation can be artificially triggered in rodents using ultrasonic pulses. The advance is seen as significant because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}